Regional climate models reveal irrigation’s role in strong precipitation and low-level winds across the Central United States.

A simple method produces a complex, atomically precise model catalyst for use in fundamental science studies.

Comparing large datasets from coordinated aircraft flights provides critical information about data researcher use in a range of analyses.

E-cigarette exposure stresses and inflames the lungs of rats, compromising important quality control proteins, according to new research.

Urbanization-induced land cover and anthropogenic aerosol changes result in stronger thunderstorms with enhanced precipitation in the Houston area.

Earth system model highlights the role of chemical sources and sinks of aerosols

Researchers propose and test foundational concepts for the new subdiscipline of “meta-metabolome ecology.”

Marine scientist Joe Haxel leads Triton Field Trials research studying methods to monitor underwater noise associated with marine energy systems.

Long term power grid planning needs to consider regional dependencies in climate adaption plans.

Rigorous mathematical methods can help avoid unnecessary simplifications in numerical models of atmospheric clouds.

More accurate methods provide better results in numerical simulations of atmospheric clouds by avoiding accidental contradictions.

Washington and Oregon coastlines hold most promising areas to pull power from West Coast waves, according to a recent study on wave energy.

PNNL researchers have developed a new class of chemistry focused on carbon capture technology and made incremental strides in driving down costs.

Urban landscapes and anthropogenic aerosols have the potential to make gusts stronger, hail larger and even steer storms toward cities.

A code comparison study demonstrates a leap in the accuracy and reliability of modeling gas hydrate for the discovery and production of natural gas.

California and other areas of the U.S. Southwest may see less future winter precipitation than previously projected by climate models, according to new research that corrects for a long-standing model error: the double-ITCZ bias.

Microbiome and soil chemistry characterization at long-term bioenergy research sites challenges idea that switchgrass increases carbon accrual in surface soils of marginal lands.

Integrating information on irrigation processes into Earth system models allows for more accurate representation of the global water cycle.

High-resolution modeling followed by cluster analysis revealed how land surface properties influence convective cloud formation.

Land use and land cover change strongly alters land–atmosphere interactions and warm-season precipitation over the Central U.S. in variable-resolution Earth system model simulations.